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Wow, it appears to me as a classic British building. Truly what is pictured in everyone's mind when you say English countryside! It's a shame they didn't offer the king/larger room though, kind of odd. I guess Kim doesn't think "outside the box" too often. That should have been a no-brainer to offer that to you guys.
Bonus points for having the Donkey Sanctuary book though.
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Wow, it appears to me as a classic British building. Truly what is pictured in everyone's mind when you say English countryside! It's a shame they didn't offer the king/larger room though, kind of odd. I guess Kim doesn't think "outside the box" too often. That should have been a no-brainer to offer that to you guys.
You'd have thought so, wouldn't you?
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Bonus points for having the Donkey Sanctuary book though.
I was very impressed by that and it was a good read.
Too bad with the king sized bed as I think they should have offered it to you for the one night as it was available! No Wi-Fi would not be good either. Other than that the place and your room look very nice. Although, I don't think they are getting you to return in the future. Perhaps, they're not striving for that.
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Can’t believe with all the empty rooms you weren’t offered a king bed. And I would give a thumbs down to no wi-if, too. Can’t imagine the owners don’t have it. They must be choosing not to share it with guests?
Such a beautiful B & B, but odd that you weren't offered the king sized room since it was available. I would think they'd be glad of the extra money. Odd, too, that they did not have WiFi. Little behind the times.
Too bad with the king sized bed as I think they should have offered it to you for the one night as it was available! No Wi-Fi would not be good either. Other than that the place and your room look very nice. Although, I don't think they are getting you to return in the future. Perhaps, they're not striving for that.
We wouldn't return in the future, you're right about that, but they seem to have a lot of people who do return regularly and they did talk to us about coming back, so they obviously want return visitors. It just wasn't the place for us though.
Can’t believe with all the empty rooms you weren’t offered a king bed. And I would give a thumbs down to no wi-if, too. Can’t imagine the owners don’t have it. They must be choosing not to share it with guests?
They said to us that it's something to do with the house and it's almost impossible to get a signal. Who knows? I don't have a historic house, so it could be that was the issue. From what I recall, they don't live in the house we were in, so their property (behind the car park) probably does have Wi-Fi.
Saturday 16 June – part eight: meeting the donkey reprobates!
We decided after a while that we’d head out to the Donkey Sanctuary. Usually it’s only open until 5:00pm, but they had an event here today and it was open until 6:00pm. It was after that time now, but we’d seen people wandering around on the webcam, so we figured it would be fine. There were a couple of cars still left in the car park, but we noticed that one car park had already been locked and chained up. We didn’t want the car to get locked in. We checked, as the last time we looked, there were no gates on the main car park, but there are now, and again with a huge set of chains on it. Perhaps not…
Instead, we drove along a little way, as there are donkeys in all the fields around here, and we came across a field with a layby just opposite, so we parked up and headed over to see them. Oh my goodness, there was a group of them just dashing around like complete idiots, playing. It was so much fun to see.
As you can see, a couple of them didn’t have collars, which means they’d already come off, no doubt from an earlier play session….
And look at this pair – doesn’t it look as if they’re planning some form of trouble?
Then they decided to come over and see us. They were a bit shy at first, but were soon queuing up to be petted and scratched. Let’s face it, they all come to see the donkey whisperer..
In particular, David spent a lot of time with us and Mark was even able to change his collar around, as it had got turned inside out and we couldn’t see his name. Murphy was another who wanted some serious human time and you should’ve seen his little face when we eventually left. Oh my goodness, we got a really pitiful look from him and I felt so bad going!
There was also a moment where one of the reprobates farted. We didn’t hear it, but wow, we smelt it. It was just gross! We often joke when we suddenly see the main barn empty out that maybe one of the donkeys farted and now we’ve smelt what it’s like, I think that could actually be the reason!
mark really has a way with the donkeys. They all seem to love him. It loos like they were having a great time playing in that field.
It is really strange that they wouldn't offer you a king room since they were empty. Maybe the stone walls are too thick for a wifi signal . There are parts of the building I work in that cell phones don't work,
Liz
yay!!! Now that is some quality donkey time. How fun! Sometimes I think the animals save all their goofiness and cuteness for the end of the day when most visitors are gone. It's like they know they're not "on display" anymore and they can relax and be themselves!
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That should have been a no-brainer to offer that to you guys. 
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No Wi-Fi would not be good either. Other than that the place and your room look very nice. Although, I don't think they are getting you to return in the future. Perhaps, they're not striving for that.
We didn’t want the car to get locked in. 
We checked, as the last time we looked, there were no gates on the main car park, but there are now, and again with a huge set of chains on it. Perhaps not… 
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